Word: duden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each weekday morning, a blue U.S. Air Force bus grinds slowly up the hills of Sonnenberg, West Germany, between ancient gabled houses and the ruins of a castle. At the Konrad Duden elementary school, it discharges a noisy load of American grade-school children from nearby Wiesbaden. Minutes later they are answering Frau Hertha Viehweger's questions-in easy, fluent German...
Last week, in California's $35,000 Bing Crosby tournament, Oregon's Bob Duden, 42, gave golfers something new to discuss. A little-known pro who has never won a major tournament, Duden uses a bent-shafted pendulum putter that he swings between his legs like a croquet mallet, in the same manner once espoused by a Mickey Finn comic strip character and hopeless duffer named Duffy. But for Duden the croquet stroke works fine. At the Monterey Peninsula Country Club, he birdied five of the last six holes for a third-round 67 that suddenly shot...
...next day's final round at Pebble Beach, Duden got a chance to demonstrate his putter before a nationwide TV audience. Right up until the final hole, his awkward but accurate style kept him in red hot contention. On the 18th hole, he needed a 25-footer for a total of 285 that, as it turned out, would have tied him with Billy Casper for the $5,300 top prize. But then his touch left him. He missed the 25-footer, blew his second putt, finally settled for seventh money of $1,400, behind Casper and five other players...
...Would Duden's odd-shaped putter start a new fad? Golfers will buy anything-and Duden claims to have peddled 1,800 copies (at $15 apiece) through pro shops in the past three years. "Putting between your legs is good-it allows you to view the ball and its intended line of roll with both eyes," says a Philadelphia clubmaker. But there is one problem. "It also gets other golfers laughing, and that's embarrassing. It puts more pressure on the putter-and he's got enough already...